You shouldn’t have to read the manual to not fucking die in a car fire. This isn’t like some secret mode to let you change what noise the horn makes. This has literally killed people.
The rear doors in Teslas don’t have any lever to manually release the door. You actually have to take off a piece of trim or the side pocket liner to find a wireloop that you have to pull.
The rear passengers in the tesla are rarely the owner of the tesla, which means that they also likely doesn’t know how to access the manual release… Why this hasn’t caused a worldwide recall is a mystery to me.
Instructions: remove the speaker grille, locate and pull the mechanical release cable, and then manually push the (really fucking heavy) door open. Vertically.
Someone designed that, patted themselves on the back, and thought “that’ll work!” Then at least one other person reviewed that design and thought the same. Then multiple people worked on how to implement that design. Likely dozens of people rubber stamped this design. It hurts my brain.
In the event of a collision, the model X should just eject its rear doors.
Should be marked so it’s obvious, but I remember a post about a guy who astonished people by knowing so much. His method? Reading the manual.
You shouldn’t have to read the manual to not fucking die in a car fire. This isn’t like some secret mode to let you change what noise the horn makes. This has literally killed people.
I agree, but seeing pictures of the lever, how do people not look around their car and see what levers and buttons do what?
Anyway my story about the manual was just meant as a story about the manual.
The rear doors in Teslas don’t have any lever to manually release the door. You actually have to take off a piece of trim or the side pocket liner to find a wireloop that you have to pull.
The rear passengers in the tesla are rarely the owner of the tesla, which means that they also likely doesn’t know how to access the manual release… Why this hasn’t caused a worldwide recall is a mystery to me.
And if you sit in the rear of a Model X good luck opening the doors even with a manual release
Instructions: remove the speaker grille, locate and pull the mechanical release cable, and then manually push the (really fucking heavy) door open. Vertically.
Someone designed that, patted themselves on the back, and thought “that’ll work!” Then at least one other person reviewed that design and thought the same. Then multiple people worked on how to implement that design. Likely dozens of people rubber stamped this design. It hurts my brain.
In the event of a collision, the model X should just eject its rear doors.